Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

[NealIRC]

How old are you? We're wooden-heads (what even is that?) because we thing its childish to be insulting/threatening real life human beings because you cant transfer your favorite magical monster animal to the next game in the magical monster animal series?

No, that wasn't my argument.

Didn't you guys knew what my argument was? My argument was insult and assault are not the same evil, 1 is marginally worse than the other. 1 is "more evil" than the other.

Edit: so this goes with
TechSkylander1518's argument, morality, not legality.

 

[Cresselia92]

It doesn’t matter whether one of the two is worse, what matters is that neither insulting nor harassing is okay.

You want to criticize something? Fine, but don’t be a jerk about it.

 

[PinkIceFox]

Coming from someone who has ptsd from being verbally harassed from the age of 11 until I graduated high school by not only other students but from some teachers as well as a verbally abusive stepdad....

Insults are just as bad as Assault and can cause just as much damage. Just because you can't SEE a hurt doesn't mean a hurt's not there.

 

[Poke Dragon]

Does anyone know when they usually drop another trailer to reveal more things about the game?

 

[team-aerialace]

Spoiler

sorry if the screenshots are a tad big. it's not any official word, just an opinion that I think matters

 

[NealIRC]

Coming from someone who has ptsd from being verbally harassed from the age of 11 until I graduated high school by not only other students but from some teachers as well as a verbally abusive stepdad....

Insults are just as bad as Assault and can cause just as much damage. Just because you can't SEE a hurt doesn't mean a hurt's not there.

I'm a victim like that with Pokemasters staff and Serebii's staff, on their forums. I joined TPM forum when I was 12, and Serebii forums when I was 13, and I too, have had my share of insults by their mods/admins cuz I was a newb. I'm now 31, and an advocate against cyberbullying.

 

[Diamandis]

Spending time on trolls is so exhausting, so i found this pic of impidip and i kinda actually like the back way more than the front mainly because of its sole wing on its head

 

[PinkIceFox]

MY SWEET BABY IMP BOY. Mama is so proud of your little hair wing thing.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

I'm now 31, and an advocate against cyberbullying.

The question wasn't if you are allowed to or not. Granted, we know you have that privilege. You just said that to avoid the topic. Or in other words, just because something is allowed, doesn't mean it should be done.

You may not like the idea but it's the principle behind it that matters, and that fans are not happy with the new Dynamax feature. Inflate someone 10x and their stats go up by 50%? Sheesh.

As for insult vs. assault being legal and illegal, maybe a better analogy for some of you wooden-heads is child porn vs. adult porn,

You have a hell of a way of showing it...

 

[Vanilluxcx]

Honestly, I'm speechless. This is probably the worst decision Game Freak could have ever made.
I mean, they already had the models from USUM, this is just pointless.

 

[techitisJ]

It's awful hearing that people are directly insulting Masuda. They collectively made a decision that needed to be made, and whether these losers like that answer or not is on them, not the creators. But they should not be verbally harassing the Producer of these games because they are upset. There is n justification for it, and they are all acting like bratty kids.

I hope Masuda and the others are doing okay.

 

[PinkIceFox]

This is probably the worst decision Game Freak could have ever made.

I dunno, locking multiplayer interaction behind Nintendo Online is much worse in my eyes.

We all survived the jump from Gold/Silver/Crystal to Ruby/Sapphire. We'll survive this.

 

[NealIRC]

Honestly, I'm speechless. This is probably the worst decision Game Freak could have ever made.
I mean, they already had the models from USUM, this is just pointless.

If this is about only Galardex pokemon that can be transferred, and not Dynamax.

And the interesting thing is, GF doesn't make the 3-D modeling images, another company called Creatures Inc. does. So maybe it's Creatures that has the deadlines, not GF.

I'm still curious to know if Sword/Shield was started as soon as Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee was finished, or if they had a staff work on it at the same time.

 

[Cute Charm]

Lets all laugh at Impidimp being Freddy Freaker because it is true.

^I'm going to need a source on that. When I try to google it I just get MEGAS click-bait website and a bunch of fan speculation.

A few pages back. Someone re-translated it and as it turned out he was comparing it TO Megas and Z-moves. Not saying it's been replaced. Like it was the new mechanic of this generation.

 

[prog rocker]

I dunno, locking multiplayer interaction behind Nintendo Online is much worse in my eyes.

We all survived the jump from Gold/Silver/Crystal to Ruby/Sapphire. We'll survive this.

I think the difference is that social media was not common at the time...

 

[prog rocker]

Lets all laugh at Impidimp being Freddy Freaker because it is true.

On a less grim topic: Who is Freddy Freaker?

 

[jonathan keller]

How come no one is mentioning the fact that were getting a seagull and a barracuda pokemon? And the seagull pokemon shoots the barracuda pokemon and pikachu at opponents. That sounds cool.

 

[techitisJ]

I dunno, locking multiplayer interaction behind Nintendo Online is much worse in my eyes.

We all survived the jump from Gold/Silver/Crystal to Ruby/Sapphire. We'll survive this.

Agreed, that's pretty annoying. Sucks to see that even something as simple as in-game trading is going to be locked behind a paywall. It's a fee I already pay because Splatoon, but it saddens me that there are fewer people who will get to experience the online parts of these games just because they can't afford to shell out more money for the extra feature.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

sorry if the screenshots are a tad big. it's not any official word, just an opinion that I think matters

They say that people would be mad about a pushback, but as they just said, people were understanding of that with Animal Crossing. I honestly think a pushback would be much better received, and I think it's unfair to criticize people for what they assume would be a poor reaction.

It is clear that they want graphics to be a priority, but I don't see where they're getting that story is a priority as well? We've barely got any word on the story so far, and Masuda didn't mention it when talking about the decision. (It also doesn't make much sense-wouldn't writing be handled by a different department than graphics?)

They also assume SwSh is gonna get a sequel, but that's really not at all a promise, as Pokemon Z can attest to.

And they say people are modeling the Dynamax forms, too, but that's...literally just the Pokemon but bigger? They're just gonna upscale the model, it's not like making a new Pokemon.

 

[Vanilluxcx]

I dunno, locking multiplayer interaction behind Nintendo Online is much worse in my eyes.

We all survived the jump from Gold/Silver/Crystal to Ruby/Sapphire. We'll survive this.

The data of the old Pokémon was still on Ruby/Sapphire and you could also get them through LG/FR and transfer them to the former if you really wanted to.